Building a brighter future with robotics
From exploring shipwrecks to air-dropping supplies in a pandemic, CS&E faculty and students are designing robots for the 21st century.
AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts
CS&E associate professor Paul Schrater is part of the team who, for the first time, developed a method to measure thoughts.
Knights named 2020 Highly Cited Researcher
Associate Professor Knights is one of the most influential researchers in his fields, according to analysis of citation counts by Clarivate Analytics.
Team receives $1.2 million NSF grant to develop smart e-scooters
CS&E assistant professor Ju Sun is part of the team aiming to add tracking systems on electric scooters to improve safety of riders on the road.
Artificial intelligence, real-life results
CS&E's Ju Sun and colleagues from the Medical School have utilized machine learning to diagnose COVID-19 via X-ray imaging.
Keefe's visualization work featured in American Scientist
CS&E associate professor Dan Keefe is working to create visualization tools to better describe the world by blending the languages of science and art.
Traffic, transit data paint a picture of COVID-19 impacts
CS&E's Shashi Shekhar is using privacy-protected spatial data collected from cell phones to understand how Minnesotans responded to the pandemic.
New project creates 'first-ever traveling studio for indigenous co-design of spatial interfaces'
The project ‘Mixed Reality Spatial Interaction for Diverse Communities’ aims to get technology into community hands while accounting for pandemic restrictions.
New discovery allows 3D printing of sensors directly on expanding organs
A team, including CS&E's Hyun Soo Park, is developing ground-breaking technology that could help diagnose and monitor COVID-19 patients.
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Latest research projects, publications, and talks
Human Fingerprints and Artistic Vocabulary; Rendering Data, Creating Engagement, Connection and Context to Earth System Models [conference paper]
Posted December 8, 2020
Francesca Samsel (adjunct assistant professor), Daniel Keefe (associate professor), Bridger Herman (Ph.D. student), Greg Abram
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Unlocking Inverse Problems Using Deep Learning: Breaking Symmetries in Phase Retrieval [conference paper]
Posted December 7, 2020
Kshitij Tayal (Ph.D. student), Chieh-Hsin Lai, Raunak Manekar, Zhong Zhuang, Vipin Kumar (professor), Ju Sun (assistant professor)
34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020
Continuous Object Representation Networks: Novel View Synthesis without Target View Supervision [conference paper]
Posted December 7, 2020
Nicolai Häni (Ph.D. student), Selim Engin (Ph.D. student), Jun-Jee Chao (M.S. student), Volkan Isler (professor)
34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020
Inverse Rational Control with Partially Observable Continuous Nonlinear Dynamics [conference paper]
Posted December 7, 2020
Minhae Kwon, Saurabh Daptardar, Paul R. Schrater (associate professor), Zachary Pitkow
34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020
Rational thoughts in neural codes [journal]
Posted November 24, 2020
Zhengwei Wu, Minhae Kwon, Saurabh Daptardar, Paul Schrater (associate professor), Xaq Pitkow
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Fast Motion Understanding with Spatiotemporal Neural Networks and Dynamic Vision Sensors [preprint]
Posted November 18, 2020
Anthony Bisulco, Fernando Cladera Ojeda, Volkan Isler (professor), Daniel D Lee
The State of the Art of Spatial Interfaces for 3D Visualization [journal]
Posted November 18, 2020
Lonni Besançon, Anders Ynnerman, Daniel Keefe (associate professor), Lingyun Yu, Tobias Isenberg
Computer Graphics Forum
Multi-Step Recurrent Q-Learning for Robotic Velcro Peeling [preprint]
Posted November 16, 2020
Jiacheng Yuan, Nicolai Häni (Ph.D. student), Volkan Isler (professor)
Strategic Term Rewriting in Attribute Grammars [conference paper]
Posted November 15, 2020
Lucas Kramer (Ph.D. student), Eric Van Wyk (associate professor)
13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) 2020- Distinguish Paper award winner
Monadification of Attribute Grammars [conference paper]
Posted November 15, 2020
Dawn Michaelson (Ph.D. student), Eric Van Wyk (associate professor)
13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE)